Date early and often keep from being serious for a time until you find a compatable mate. Remember the old saying: Women choose men with potential that they see that they can change- they don't. Men see women that they hope will stay the same - they don't.

Please remember that by age 34 Down Syndrome probability climbs to 1 in 400. That is scary and I know because it happened to my daughter who had 2 children and decided not to abort. Now this boy is hard for her as she decided to have her 4th child and new baby girl is fine and now my daughter has an 8 year old who does not speak and wears diapers and a baby also in diapers. She does not complain except that she is tired alot. Oh yes she is quite brilliant with loads of energy but doing her job plus baby stuff musy be difficult. Daddy/Grandaddy

Joe Biden is a great guy. Funny even with the gaffs.
Just a note of seriousness in the dating business. Look at the statistics of Down Syndrome. Dramatically increases after 30th year. By 34years of age Downs probability is 1 in 400 births.

Darn! The headline is comical, but the article dissapoints. Joe being Joe, I was expecting something hilarious like a jawdropping gaffe about the merits of reverse cowgirl or something equally improper...

Darn! The headline is comical, but the article dissapoints. Joe being Joe, I was expecting something hilarious like a jawdropping gaffe about the merits of reverse cowgirl or something equally improper...

Darn! The headline is comical, but the article dissapoints. Joe being Joe, I was expecting something hilarious like a jawdropping gaffe about the merits of reverse cowgirl or something equally improper...

I'm not a Biden fan, but I've seen the guy in person and he comes across as extremely likeable. A good guy. I believe 100% of his so-called gaffes are intentionally done. I saw make one once and it was hysterically funny.

So let me get this straight, no dates until 30? An age by which women's fertility has already declined by something like 50% if not more? And the planet that this man is living on is called what, again?

This comment would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous. There's been a slew of articles in the press recently (written by women, no less) imploring women to NOT postpone their plans to start a family since they're most fertile in their 20s.

Coming from an "old-school" guy like Biden it's pretty weird to hear something like that. I would've thought he'd come up with something more traditional.

What I don't like about the joke is that these girls were there precisely because women are undervalued in the work place and the senators' bringing their daughters to work was supposed to show them that they can achieve things, too. By making that joke, Biden was subtly putting the girls back into the very role the bring-your-daughter-to-work program was trying to combat.

In any case, he's the VP. He's got the press at his heels. Surely he could come up with something that a) is funny; and b) isn't subtly insulting.

I generally like Joe Biden, but that comment is horrible. It's telling females that they are delicate little flowers, not to be trusted, and not capable of being confident and strong while interacting with members of the opposite sex. It's also an insult to men by saying they are too horny to treat females with any decency. That is not a stance the Vice President should take.

I generally like Joe Biden, but that comment is horrible. It's telling females that they are delicate little flowers, not to be trusted, and not capable of being confident and strong while interacting with members of the opposite sex. It's also an insult to men by saying they are too horny to treat females with any decency.

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